Chapter 39: A charlatan

Bai Youyou ignored his anger and said calmly, "Your grandmother has lost a lot of memories. The only thing she remembers is that you were going to take the college entrance examination. This has become her obsession and the reason why she cannot reincarnate. Her soul has begun to dissipate. If she can't resolve this obsession, she will disappear completely and there will be no chance of reincarnation."

Shen Lubai, a top student who was studying for a master's and doctoral degree, only believed in science and had always scoffed at such feudal superstitions. He stared at Bai Youyou as if he was a liar, and felt a little regretful that he had let her in so easily.

"You're a charlatan!"

This is not a question, but a statement!

Bai Youyou felt exhausted. His destiny was really a long and arduous journey. In order to gain trust, he could only talk about his past.

"You lived with your grandmother in the countryside since you were a child. When you were ten years old, your parents moved you to the city to study after they settled down there. You are a very good student and you work hard to make progress. Your original intention was to find a good job through studying so that you can bring your grandmother to the city to enjoy a better life."

Shen Lubai just listened quietly, with a slight ripple in his heart, and then he calmed down again after thinking that if he was willing to look up this information, he could find it.

"Every summer vacation, you would go back to the countryside by car to accompany your grandmother. She would always wait for you at the intersection where the car passed. No matter it was windy or rainy, you would always see that familiar figure when you got off the car."

"You like her rough, dry hands holding you. You feel safe. When you get home, she will take out the candies she has collected and fill your pockets with them. Then she will turn on the TV for you to watch and go to the kitchen to light a fire and cook you a steaming hot meal."

"In the hot summer, grandma would prepare meals and move the small table and stool to the yard for us to eat. She would stand by you and wave a fan to drive away mosquitoes. She would clean the bathtub at home and place it in the yard in advance, pouring water into it with her thin body, so that you could soak in the bath in the yard while listening to the chirping of birds and insects..."

"When you are taking a bath, she will hang up the gauze curtains, spread a new cool mat, and sprinkle some floral water. After you take a bath, you can lie directly on the cool bed and watch TV. When she sleeps with you at night, she will fan you even when she falls asleep..."

The memories of his childhood suddenly came flooding back like a flood, and Shen Lubai was mesmerized by the story...

"Every summer vacation is the day she looks forward to most. How lonely she must be living alone in the countryside. The loneliness after the reunion is the most cruel..."

Shen Lubai recalled that every time he was about to leave when he was a child, his grandmother would carry his schoolbag on her frail shoulders and his luggage in her skinny hands, and would step by step send him to the car...

"Every time after she drops you off in the car, she will follow the car for a long time until she can't catch up..."

When Shen Lubai thought of this scene, his heart was filled with sadness. He covered his eyes with his hands, not wanting to show his vulnerability.

"Now, you should know that I'm not a charlatan. To tell you the truth, I'm just a ferryman who walks on the edge of Yin and Yang, helping the living and the dead..."

After he calmed down, he searched the platform for high-energy live broadcast recordings of himself, all of which were posted by her loyal viewers.

After Shen Lubai heard her talk about the details of their relationship when they were so young, which only he and his grandmother knew, he was actually already shaken in his heart. Watching the video was just a way for him to step down.

"Is my grandma...really gone?"

He seemed unwilling to believe it! His grandmother suddenly disappeared before his college entrance examination. His father told him about it when he was about to go back to the countryside to find his grandmother after the college entrance examination, just to avoid affecting his exam!

Bai Youyou took out the soul-raising tablet from her bag, spread it in her palm and extended it to Shen Lubai, "Her soul is unstable, I will keep her here for the time being." |

Looking at the antique wooden sign with his grandmother's name written on it with a cinnabar pen, he could no longer hold back his tears. "I have been looking for my grandmother for five years, and no one knows where she is. Although I have prepared for the worst, I still don't want to believe it."

"The deceased is gone. What's important now is to let her let go of her obsession and reincarnate. It's no good for you to stay in the human world!"

"She took the egg to visit you by bus before your college entrance examination. As soon as she entered the city, her money was stolen."

"She could only ask around while looking for you. The city is different from the countryside. It was impossible for her to find you this way. And no one helped her, so she used this primitive method to look for you in the city for several days."

"Because she hadn't eaten or drunk much in the past few days and the weather was hot, she was weak and fell on the side of the road. She had a bloody hole on her head. Because no one dared to help her, by the time the police came and took her to the hospital, it was too late."

"She didn't have anything to prove her identity, and the police issued a missing person notice for a while but to no avail. After confirming that it was an accidental death, the funeral home cremated the old woman according to normal procedures, and the ashes have been stored in an unclaimed area. That's why your grandmother has become a homeless soul, wandering around!"

Bai Youyou calmly narrated what happened before Grandma Shen's death. It can only be said that this incident was full of regrets. If someone had helped the old lady to call the police, the subsequent series of events would not have happened.

"What should I do?"

A grown man burst into tears.

"You need to claim her ashes, bury her properly, and offer more incense and worship to her so that she can live a better life in the afterlife."

He stared blankly at the small sign, and looked at Bai Youyou with tears in his eyes and expectation, "Will I be able to see my grandma again?"

She took out a red envelope from her bag and handed it to Shen Lubai, "If the divination is not in vain, pay the divination fee first, and the talisman paper will be charged separately!"

If it had been like this at the beginning, Shen Lubai would have definitely kicked her out. However, he took the red envelope, took out ten hundred-dollar bills from the drawer behind him, stuffed them into the red envelope, and handed them to Bai Youyou with both hands.

Bai Youyou gathered the energy of the talisman at her fingertips and slid it gently in front of Shen Lubai's eyes. Shen Lubai felt a flash before his eyes, and at this moment Bai Youyou summoned the soul in the wooden sign...

"Small road..."

A familiar voice suddenly rang out. Only grandma would call her by this affectionate nickname. Shen Lubai looked at his grandma whom he hadn't seen for many years. Tears could no longer be controlled and he knelt down in front of his grandma, looking up at her.

"Grandma, I miss you so much."

After meeting Shen Lubai, grandma's lost memories gradually came back to her. She remembered how she died, and she just felt regretful that she didn't spend a few more years with her grandson.